United States · NAICS 533 · Annual, 2025
Lessors of Nonfinancial Intangible Assets (except Copyrighted Works) in the United States
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 533 in the United States, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Lessors of Nonfinancial Intangible Assets (except Copyrighted Works) (NAICS 533) employed about 21,900 people in the United States across roughly 3,870 establishments, with average annual pay of $171,330.
Employment in Lessors of Nonfinancial Intangible Assets (except Copyrighted Works) in the United States declined 16.1% from 2004 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 117.6% above the all-industries average in the United States. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for the United States are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 21,900Employment, 2025
- 3,870Establishments
- $171,330Avg. annual pay
- 0.0%Share of U.S. jobs
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 26,100; 2005 26,200; 2006 27,500; 2007 27,800; 2008 27,500; 2009 26,100; 2010 25,300; 2011 24,000; 2012 24,300; 2013 23,800; 2014 23,900; 2015 23,500; 2016 23,400; 2017 23,900; 2018 23,000; 2019 23,200; 2020 21,100; 2021 20,700; 2022 22,200; 2023 22,700; 2024 22,200; 2025 21,900.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21,869 | 3,870 | $171,326 | 1.6% | pub. |
| 2024 | 22,225 | 3,765 | $146,492 | 1.9% | pub. |
| 2023 | 22,653 | 3,765 | $135,389 | 1.8% | pub. |
| 2022 | 22,242 | 3,647 | $135,792 | 7.4% | pub. |
| 2021 | 20,703 | 3,400 | $125,082 | 1.9% | pub. |
| 2020 | 21,106 | 3,290 | $121,201 | 9.2% | pub. |
| 2019 | 23,240 | 3,271 | $111,366 | 1.1% | pub. |
| 2018 | 22,979 | 3,172 | $108,140 | 4.0% | pub. |
| 2017 | 23,947 | 3,126 | $106,776 | 2.3% | pub. |
| 2016 | 23,419 | 3,066 | $103,103 | 0.4% | pub. |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.
Where these numbers come from
Reading these figures
The figures on this page come from one named vintage, stated below, and are annual values for all ownerships combined. Where QCEW withheld a value, the marked figure is an estimate that DTG produced under the constraints of the published record; suppression is a property of QCEW, not of DTG, and a withheld value is marked rather than silently omitted. Two things DTG itself holds back, and says so where it does: an estimate that cannot be given a reliability score is not shown, and average pay is not shown where fewer than three jobs are reported. The row is marked withheld, with the reason in a note beneath the table. The mark is on every row that carries a value: the headline, the yearly history, the subsectors and the other states. An estimated value that rounds below one is shown as less than one, not as zero. Quarterly figures, county figures and projected years are in the app.
How this figure was built
Employment is the average of the three monthly counts in each quarter, averaged across the year, and establishments are averaged across the year the same way. Average annual pay is the year’s total wages divided by that average employment. Each of these is DTG’s value: QCEW’s published figure where QCEW disclosed it, and DTG’s estimate, marked, where it did not. How withheld values are estimated, and what the reliability score beside a figure means, are described on the industry data and disclosure and provenance pages.
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Lessors of Nonfinancial Intangible Assets (except Copyrighted Works) in the United States, quarterly, at full depth
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